Focus on what works

12:52 PM,
Apr. 11, 2014

Cal Thomas

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Cal Thomas
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The Fiscal Times reported recently that the State Department has missing files or incomplete files for more than $6 billion in State Department contracts. Steve Linick, State's inspector general, issued a "management alert" warning that "significant financial risk and a lack of internal control at the department has led to billions of unaccounted for dollars over the last six years."

"For instance," writes the FT, "a recent investigation of the closeout process for contracts supporting the mission in Iraq, showed that auditors couldn't find 33 of the 115 contract files totaling about ...